Talk:The Best of George Harrison/Archive 1

UK release date?
Old, old books I've got from the period (eg Carr & Tyler, The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, 1978 edn) give release date for this comp as 14 January 1977, but I know more recent sources (eg Badham, The Beatles Diary Vol. 2) list it as November '76, shortly after the US release. I'm wondering though, whether this 20 Nov date is a case of one author/researcher getting it wrong somewhere along the line and subsequent sources repeating the error. Does anyone have a reliable, firsthand-researched source that gives a Nov '76 UK release date for the album? Because, I'm thinking that Jan '77 makes far more sense from an EMI/Parlophone marketing perspective anyway: aside from the Capitol (UK) release for Wings Over America around this time, Parlophone finally issued the Magical Mystery Tour album in the UK, so they wouldn't have wanted a third Beatles-related release out within as many weeks (especially bearing in mind their deliberate 'staggered' release schedules in 1970 for Sentimental Journey/McCartney/Let It Be and three years later for 1962-66/1967-70/Red Rose Speedway/Living in the Material World). So can anyone confirm this 20 November date? Many thanks, JG66 (talk) 07:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello again! (We seem to be bumping into each other a lot) The Nov '76 release used in this comes from JPGR. However, I've found that allmusic has the UK & US dates as the same day and eil list the release date as 1976. yeepsi (Time for a chat?) 10:06, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey Yeepsi − knew you wouldn't be too far away(!). Thanks for all the above, what a great info page at JPGR. Still a bit dubious about the UK release date for Best of GH but best to let it go, I guess, unless anything else turns up to support the Jan '77 option. PS the Extra Texture article's ready for quality reassessment, if you've got the time/inclination ... Cheers, JG66 (talk) 11:03, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I have every related page to The Beatles in my watchlist, which does help from time-to-time. Re your PS: Thanks, I'll reassess it. yeepsi (Time for a chat?) 11:15, 16 April 2012 (TC)
 * Ah, I figured that must've been the case. (Every page − wow.) Probably don't me tell you, therefore, but I've just added to and reworked this Best of GH article quite a bit, so another reassessment should be due. Cheers, JG66 (talk) 07:07, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I think your suspicion that the more recent publications have drifted from the truth is correct. Allmusic would be your least reliable source of them all.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  00:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Radiopathy. Yes, I agree − Allmusic is not to the place to turn to for dates. Not only that, but it's a good example of a source that often repeats others' mistakes/misassumptions − eg, Ginell's Dark Horse review claiming that Clapton guested on "Bye, Bye Love", when that was a rumour Harrison himself put to rest back in 1976−77. Badham also repeats the error, I think. So − hardly surprisingly − the same mistake ended up in wiki's Dark Horse article until quite recently, if I remember right ... and so it goes on (!). JG66 (talk) 07:07, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Certifications section
Got in a bit of a mess trying to add ref for this RIAA certification − for some reason, can't get current ref #11 (RIAA − Recording Industry Association of America, "RIAA's Gold & Platinum Program") to appear there and remove the final ref (#15). If anyone can help, that would be great; also to hide ref 11's long url within the "RIAA's Gold & Platinum Program" wording. Thanks (can never work out how to do these things ...) JG66 (talk) 05:21, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Updating the above, allowing for new refs just added: 'ref 11' is now #19, and 'ref 15' now #23 ... JG66 (talk) 14:11, 18 April 2012 (UTC)